80 Wash. 2d 91 - Wilson v. Lund’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Sanchez v. Schindler (1983), Dziokonski v. Babineau (1978)
6 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wycko v. Gnodtke · 72 Wash. 2d 22 - Weber v. Biddle · 71 Wash. 2d 112 - Lockhart v. Besel · 76 Wash. 2d 772 - Myers v. Harter · 72 Wash. 2d 201 - Clark v. Icicle Irrigation District
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A father, or in case of his death or desertion of his family, the mother may maintain an action as plaintiff for the injury or death of a minor child, or a child on whom either is dependent for support, . . . In such an action, in addition to damages for medical, hospital, medication expenses, and loss of services and support, damages may be recovered for the loss of love and companionship of the child and for injury to or destruction of the parent-child relationship in such amount as, under all the circumstances of the case, may be just.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Rjecovery for mental anguish is the only category of damages which we can conceive could have been intended by the legislature in enacting the disputed statutory phrase. Simply and directly stated, no legally recognizable category or element of damages remains — other than the category describable as compensation for mental anguish.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The loss of or injury to a child is an experience involving a complex pattern of human relationships, emotional reactions, and responses. The 1967 amendment evidences recognition of this complex pattern.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.